Ketamine chemical restraint to facilitate rescue of a combative "jumper"

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-89

  Hick, John L ^a,b   Ho, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BICARBONATE; HALOPERIDOL; KETAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AUTOMUTILATION; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SEDATION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VOMITING; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23244466894     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120590891859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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